| “ | Dense, toxic fumes from deep within the planet's crust seep out of cracks in the earth and coat the ground in a sickly haze. | „ |
| ~ Official Description |
Wasat is one of the five planets that reside within the Ymir sector. Its general landscape consists of rocky hills with flatter terrain in between. Wasat is a foggy, desolate, acidic planet. The planet became part of the Second Galactic War during an automaton attack on May 11th, 2184 during Operation Metallic Harvest.
Topography[]
The planet is covered in brown rocks and sand, stained yellow from the constant acidic environment. The skies are dense and dark and stained a teal color. Many mushroom shaped mountains and hilly structures cover the landscape, with rough flatter land in between. The lowlands are often filled with acid filled craters and terraced lakes. Helldiver forces should be aware of the threats posed by low visibility, acid rain, and potential drowning risks.
History[]
Second Galactic War[]
Wasat had remained on the sidelines of the Special Military Operations conducted against the Automaton Expedition during the months of February and March of 2184. Like many other planets in the Ymir Sector, it had remained an unremarkable but highly patriotic colony of the Federation for 100 years, its citizens thriving among the acidic pools and tall plateaus that dot its yellowish green deserts. While there are some reports of skirmishes occuring here during the month of march, the Ministry of Truth has confirmed, through the Ministry of Defense that these reports are unreliable and should be considered an attempt at psychological warfare by the Automatons or dissidents sponsored by them.
Defense of Wasat (May 11th - May 12th 2184)[]
Automaton forces attacked Meissa on April 20th. The planet saw fighting, ultimately leaving the planet under Automaton control. Late April and early May saw Helldiver attention focused in the Eastern Front, leaving only small forces of a few thousand Helldivers per planet in the Western Front. Although the bulk of the Helldiver forces began to move west during Operation Metallic Harvest, the Ymir sector was not well defended. The call for Helldiver assistance rang out on May 11th, 2184. Automaton forces had advanced from Meissa to Wasat. Immediately, thousands of Helldivers flooded in. Over 6,000 reinforcements had arrived within the hour, with fierce combat beginning promptly. The amount of Helldiver forces on the planet surface dropped gradually, with Automaton gains being largely unhindered by the end of May 11th. Most of the Helldiver forces operating in the West were concentrated on Lesath or Menkent, which were much more strategically significant. Only ~4,000 defenders were operating on Wasat. By the next day on May 12th, it was clear the planet was going to be lost.
Liberation Campaign of Wasat (May 12th 2184 - June 3rd 2184)[]
Automaton forces captured Wasat late on the day of May 12th. A liberation campaign to retake the planet began in earnest, but only ~2000 Helldivers are active on the planet. As of May 12th, 45.8% of the planet was in democratic hands. The next day on May 13th, that number had fallen as low as less than 1,000. The planet fell to 19.7% liberation. Over time, the liberation percentage fell to negligible levels, as did the amount of Helldiver forces on the planet. At the lowest there were ~50 Helldivers operating on Wasat.
The fall of Vega Bay on June 3rd, 2184 cut off Wasat. The liberation campaign was abandoned fully, leaving Wasat under full automaton control.
Operation Valiant Resistance (June 7th, 2184 - June 10th, 2184)[]
With Helldiver forces occupied on the Eastern Front, the Automaton forces spread unchecked throughout the Western regions of the galaxy. Individual planets were captured nearly unimpeded. However, the destruction of the Meridia Supercolony on June 2nd and the subsequent liberation of the Umlaut and Jin Xi sectors allowed Super Earth forces breathing room. With the situation in the East stabilized, the hands of liberty were now freely able to be wrapped around the neck of socialism.
Although intelligence into the Automaton's methods and current objectives is still unclear, intelligence analysts were able to uncover an automaton database on Wasat, with High Command marking it's capture as an objective of vital importance. Nicknamed Database One, an offensive deep into the Ymir sector has been launched, with the target being Wasat. By June 10th, the Helldivers had successfully liberated Vega Bay and Wezen, carving open the path to capture Wasat. The liberation campaign began late in the day of June 9th. The acidic. foggy environment made the battle on this day grueling; not to mention the mindless and ferocious resistance of the red pest. The fighting continued late into the day of June 10th, when Wasat was liberated. This also completed Operation Valiant Resistance. Some of the Helldiver forces on Wasat preceded to nearby Meissa.
Meanwhile intrepid SEAF Cyberwarfare Specialists were able to breach the encryption of Database One, delivering the Federation a vast treasure trove of information that will likely take months for the Ministry of Intelligence fully analyze. Even so, the Federation's intelligence analysts were also able to quickly identify valuable intelligence, key amongst this being confirmation that the Automatons are planning some sort of massive terraforming project on Cyberstan itself.
Other decoded data includes detailed recordings of the impact of the Terminid Supercolony on Meridia. Other keywords are referenced numerous times throughout the data trove, without additional details: Vessel 00, Nucleus, The Final Collective, and others. As our analysts continue to decode the vast database, new intel may be gleaned that will aid in the Federation's Valiant Campaign against the mechanical menace. For now though, High Command's strategic objective on the Automaton front has been affirmed. Cyberstan must be liberated at any cost.
Operation Starslayer (July 5th-July 8th)[]
Major combat operations resumed in the Ymir sector on July 3rd. The Automatons launched an attack towards X-45, which was repulsed by July 4th. They began to counterattack nearby planets on July 5th to cut off Helldiver reinforcements to the X and Meissa systems. By July 5th, Wezen had fallen, and Vega Bay and Wasat were under attack.
Wasat is less strategically important than Vega Bay, which contains the supply line connecting Super Earth to the Ymir Sector front. With progress on Wasat looking grim, the Automaton forces suddenly yielded control of the system to Super Earth. These automaton forces would be dispatched to bolster counterattack efforts on Meissa and Vega Bay. It would appear that the Automaton offensive on Wasat was a ruse to obscure their true target of Meissa. This ruse strategy was repeated less successfully on July 7th.
An automaton on offensive onto Wasat was handily repulsed. Halfway through this attack, the Automatons struck X-45 from a position on Vega Bay. Helldiver forces rapidly moved to the X system early into this offensive. With Wasat successfully defended, the Helldivers then returned to X-45 to continue their valiant resistance.
Matar Bay Encirclement (July 17th - July 23rd)[]
After the successful completion of Operation Righteous Expunge, automaton forces stuck on Vega Bay have send a meager and desperate invasion force into Wasat system. Automatons made their planetfall at evening of July 21st, 2184. Unfortunately, 24 hours later Automatons have overwhelmed SEAF and claimed control over the planet due to Helldivers leaving for Defense of Turing. The bots are still encircled, preventing them from making permanent gains. A small detachment of loyal divers begun slow and meticulous purge of the invaders.
Operation Liberty Crush[]
With the Helldivers making significant gains out West, the Automatons, in their mechanized treachery, devised a new means by which to harry SEAF forces and re-ignite their unjustified territorial ambitions. The bots devised a new Orbital Cannon system across the Ymir and Trigon Sectors, including Wasat. The Orbital Cannons targeted Pelican-1 Pilots, extending extraction times and causing a shortage of available pilots. The Helldivers were thus tasked with liberating not only Wasat, but Vega Bay, Wezen, Ustotu, and Varylia 5 as well.
The Helldivers deployed en masse to swiftly liberate all designated planets, knowing that failure meant that the Automatons would rapidly expand production of the Cannons across their entire fiefdom. Luckily for the acidic planet, it was liberated in relatively swift order with Automaton resistance across its Western-most sectors crumbling during the Helldiver offensive. Unfortunately for the Helldivers, they would only be able to liberate 4 of the 5 designated planets, with the Automatons stymieing their attempts to liberate Wezen. The bots briskly deployed Orbital Cannons across the rest of their holdings, challenging the previously unmatched aerial superiority of the SEAF.
Operation Wild Hunt & Interim (March 13, 2185)[]
Since its final liberation in July 2184, Wasat remained untouched by the Galactic War, finally returning to some semblance of peace. Its few colonists began to rebuild from what was a shocking year, the planet left in tatters following numerous months spent under the avaricious control of the robots. As a whole, the Ymir Sector and the former Western-most holdings of the Automatons went on undisturbed with the bots making changes to their territorial ambitions toward the end of 2184. From September 2184, the bots began to turn to the East of Cyberstan, attacking and maintaining significant footholds in the Tanis and Gellert Sectors located on the far Northern galactic fringe. Simultaneously, the Automatons came dangerously close to Super Earth through their advances in the Marspira and Talus Sectors, reaching as far as the southern tip of the Talus Sector at Shallus.
Into the beginning of 2185, the Automaton front remained fairly quiet on the whole. All Helldiver attention was concentrated on the Galactic East and South, with major Terminid outbreaks ongoing alongside the Helldivers' first forays into The Gloom on Fori Prime. Simultaneously, the shocking reappearance of the {{Illuminate2}}}} and their subsequent moving of the Meridian Singularity toward Super Earth necessitated a constant presence in the Galactic South to stop them from harvesting the Dark Energy necessary to move the wormhole. All told, all hands were on deck to the East and the South while the Automatons remained strangely and deviously quiet.
In March 2185, the Automaton front broke into massive conflict after 2 to 3 months of quiet. In a 22-hour period between March 1 and March 2, the bots launched 4 incursions across 3 different sectors, with Wasat's neighbor Meissa defending against a vicious Automaton assault driven by a powerful 16 invasion fleets. Elsewhere, Blistica and Chort Bay came under attack hours after Meissa's defense began, with the attack on Chort Bay being particularly aggressive with 18 battalions being dispatched. Then, Claorell came under a massive attack, 38 invasion fleets being sent toward its Deep Mantle Forge Complex. By the end of all its carnage, Meissa, Blistica, and Chort Bay all fell under Automaton control with Claorell briefly falling but being re-liberated 2 days later. All told, these defeats left the Helldivers on the backfoot with the bots beginning to expand their offensive and their territory.
Meissa's fall spelled direct danger for the rest of the Ymir Sector, particularly Wasat. As Helldiver attention was directed elsewhere, Meissa was allowed to fall to 0% liberation progress with the bots now attaining full control of the planet. The bots, ever opportunistic, would never let such brilliant SEAF efforts elsewhere deter them from unjustly expanding their despotic domain. In the morning hours of March 13, the Automatons of Meissa dispatched a brutal 17 Automaton Invasion Fleets toward Wasat in tandem with a vicious bug infestation of Achird III.
The battle for Wasat was severely undermanned. Far more Helldivers concentrated on the liberation of Vog-Sojoth alongside attempting to repel the Termind outbreak on Achird III. As such, by the time Wasat reached its peak Helldiver count of around 11,000 Super Destroyers, the Automatons had built a massive and, by that point, insurmountable lead on the Helldivers. Then, with the Helldiver count severely dwindling and the campaign to defend the planet already looking lost, the Meridian Singularity had reached critical momentum on its collision course with planet Moradesh. The planet was brutally destroyed, dismantled just as violently as Angel's Venture had been roughly a month prior. Helldivers deployed at a safe distance to Moradesh, watching on as the once-beautiful and prosperous world of magnificent scientists was gruesomely torn apart. In turn, this caused a brief yet sizable decrease in the divers fighting on Wasat, which already seemed a lost cause.
A despondent SEAF watching Moradesh's demoralizing demise also had to contend with the now-inevitable fall of Wasat. The planet's undermanned defenses broke by the morning of March 14, bringing the planet back under Automaton control and expanding the bots' influence in the Ymir Sector. Now, with massive Terminid outbreaks ongoing and a new Order issued on the Eastern Front, the Helldivers had no real opportunity for a counter attack on Wasat, and the planet would begin to fall under full Automaton control over the next 24 hours.
FTL Lines[]
FTL Timeline[]
- February 8th, 2184: Wasat is connected by FTL to Meissa and X-45.
- April 20th, 2184: New FTL line to Vega Bay is established.
- May 3rd, 2184: FTL line to X-45 is destroyed.
- June 13th, 2184: FTL line to X-45 is re-established.
Trivia[]
- Planets in this region of the galaxy, such as Marfark and Menkent, have Arabic names. Wasat also bears one.
- In Islam, Wasat (moderation) is one of the most basic terms and deliberately used topics. In the sense of shariah, it is a central characteristic of Islamic creed and has been used from the very beginning of Islam. It refers to a justly balanced way of life, avoiding extremes and experiencing things in moderation.